What is recorded here

Island Mcteige in County Limerick held a charcoal-making site dated to 961-1020. Nikolah Gilligan excavated the place, revealing that people transformed local wood into dense fuel during the early medieval period. The site records human industry, not passive nature.

Charcoal-making site (Site 3B) excavated by Nikolah Gilligan (08E0998). A radiocarbon date places this in the early medieval period (961-1020 cal. AD; UBA 11555).' This description is posted on the web at the following internet address (accessed 3 August 2012): http://www.excavations.ie/ Compiled by: Denis Power Date of Upload: 3 August 2012

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